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The UConn hockey team has added Joe Masonius, a highly touted defenseman from Spring Lake, N.J., to its recruiting class for next season, according to a source. Masonius spent last season with the U.S. National Under-18 team, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he was teammates with Tage Thompson, another incoming UConn recruit. Masonius, who has nine siblings, is listed on the national team's website as being 6 feet, 180 pounds. He shoots left-handed and is considered to have the talent to be UConn's best puck-handling defenseman next season and will probably run the power play. In 60 games for the U-18 team last season, he had six goals and 23 assists and was the team's...

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